How Teachers Supporting Teachers Streamlined Goal Tracking and Strengthened Team Alignment

Executive Summary

Teachers Supporting Teachers (TST) is a nonprofit that mobilizes teacher leaders to create lasting change in traditionally underserved schools. Through its Fellowship program, TST provides professional development and coaching designed to build leadership capacity within public education.

After investing significant time and care into developing a strategic plan, TST sought a practical way to stay aligned with it. Using PlanPerfect’s planning and tracking tools, TST gained greater clarity across goals, streamlined reporting, and reclaimed valuable hours for mission-focused work.

“PlanPerfect has been a great asset in helping us stay true to our strategic plan.” — Andy Rhodes, Executive Director, TST

Client Background

Founded to address the leadership gap in schools with the highest need, Teachers Supporting Teachers invests in educators as the drivers of school transformation. Their Fellowship model builds on the strengths of new teacher leaders by pairing them with experienced mentors and providing structured opportunities for reflection, collaboration, and growth.

The Challenge

When Executive Director Andy Rhodes first connected with PlanPerfect co-founders Sophia Shaw and Adam Wolford, he wasn’t looking to build a new strategic plan—he already had one. Instead, his question was how to keep it alive.

“We took a lot of time and care developing our plan and wanted to make sure we were staying organized and moving forward on it.”

The team needed a tool that could support real-time implementation, offer transparency, and reduce the administrative burden of staying accountable to long-term goals.

The Solution

From the initial meeting, PlanPerfect offered a natural fit: a structured yet flexible platform designed to help leaders translate strategy into action.

Key features that supported TST’s needs included:

• Structured Goal Breakdown: PlanPerfect’s layout allowed TST to divide long-term goals into discrete, trackable objectives—clarifying what progress looked like at each stage.
  
  

• Strategic Coherence: With visibility across multiple strands of work, Andy and his team could better understand how individual efforts aligned with broader aims, surfacing synergy and preventing duplication.
  
  

• Built-in Accountability: Tracking historical and upcoming tasks in one place helped the team maintain momentum and verify completion over time.

“PlanPerfect just has what I need under each strategy. The objectives and goals are laid out for me—it was such a good fit right away.”

Results

TST has seen meaningful improvements in both time management and team alignment since adopting PlanPerfect.

• Time Savings: Weekly strategic updates that once took up to three hours now take 15 minutes. Andy sets aside a recurring calendar hold, updates his progress, and exports reports with minimal effort.
  
  

• Streamlined Board Reporting: PlanPerfect’s dashboard and export features reduced the effort of preparing for board meetings, improving transparency without adding new tasks.
  
  

• Stronger Team Coherence: As TST balances multiple partnerships and programs, PlanPerfect serves as a shared reference point that grounds internal and external conversations in the strategic plan.

“As an ED, it’s easy to get caught up in the weeds. Having a rubric that’s both adaptive and honest helps me stay focused.”

Looking Ahead

TST’s leadership is continuing to integrate PlanPerfect into its organizational rhythm, aiming to make the platform a consistent touchstone for staff, board members, and collaborators alike.

“I’d like to increase my use of PlanPerfect. I want it to be more a part of the fabric of conversations—with my board, partners, and others.”

About PlanPerfect

PlanPerfect is a strategic planning platform built by and for mission-driven leaders. Combining human-centered design with AI-assisted tools, PlanPerfect supports nonprofits in developing, implementing, and tracking strategy—so they can spend less time managing plans and more time creating impact.